Blankenstein is a village and a former municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in

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. On 1 January 2019 it became part of the new municipality Rosenthal am Rennsteig. Prior to 2019, Blankenstein had been the seat of the Saale-Rennsteig ''

Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Municipal associations (, , ) are statutory corporations or public bodies created by statute in the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, and Schleswig-Holstein. In Baden-Württemberg the term ''stipulated municipal association ...

'' (municipal association), which was disbanded in the reorganisation. Rathaus-Blankenstein

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Former municipalities in Thuringia Saale-Orla-Kreis {{SaaleOrla-geo-stub